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From its formation in the mid-2000s for the needs of the Silicon Valley data elite, Hadoop has come a long way. Those early adopters had data needs that far surpassed any budget for a DBMS out there. The scale was an order of magnitude away...

PLANO, Texas July 29, 2014 – McKnight Consulting Group today announced that its president, William McKnight, will be presenting “In-Memory Architectures for Current Workloads and the Future of Processing” on August 21 at the NoSQL Now! Educational Conference in San Jose, CA.
“William McKnight has given...

For this blog, I thought I would address some of the main questions I am answering these days for companies who are investigating NoSQL solutions, like those from Cloudant, an IBM Company.
Many will say that NoSQL is a Valley phenomenon and an SMB company does...

Inhi Cho, the VP/GM of Big Data, Integration, & Governance at IBM, spoke on the topic of “Continuously Curate Information – Realize the Full Value of Data” at the IBM Big Data and Analytics Summit last month.
Cho said the “hyper-changing world” necessitates a new way...

Scaling to a certain level (data, complexity, etc.) is less expensive with many smaller machines than with fewer larger machines. In the early days of computing, as systems began to tackle scaling challenges with larger more complex machines, the costs took off exponentially. A 10-terabyte...

I was in New York City for the IBM Big Data & Analytics Summit earlier this month. I wanted to bring you some of the useful information about strategy and the (expected) new and upcoming IBM products I heard about.
Alistair Rennie, General Manager, Business Analytics...

Organizations of all sizes that are still doing only simple reporting with their data are leaving a lot of value on the table. Typically, these organizations are still using as much of the lowest cost hard disk (HDD) storage as possible. Analytics and/or big data...

I had the opportunity to present my “Organizational Change Management: Solving the Hard Soft Issues” to the Data Warehousing Institute audience last week in Chicago. It will be taught again at TDWI Boston on July 23.
Organizational Change Management (OCM) strategy provides a road map of...

In my last post, I looked at trends in database management systems and the divide between operational and analytical systems. Now I want to look at the top three extensions which are adding analytic capabilities to a modern database. These are features that should be...